Level1 Patreon News: October 28 2019 (Patreon)

Level1 News October 28 2019: Patron Edition

1:16 - FCC Study Declares US Broadband Is Wonderful, Nothing to See Here 2:23 - Ajit Pai wants to abolish federalism so Verizon and AT&T can throttle your data 4:59 - The FCC is using streaming services as an excuse to raise cable rates 8:53 - White House kicks infosec team to curb in IT office shakeup 11:35 - Senators urge FTC to investigate Amazon over Capital One data breach 13:35 - U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take their data with them 15:41 - Microsoft beats Amazon to win the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract 17:15 - In a First, FTC Bans Company From Selling ‘Stalkerware’ 19:54 - Netflix and Spotify Might Be Required to Issue Emergency Alerts From the Government Just Like TV and Radio 21:46 - Lawmaker Kills Repair Bill Because 'Cellphones Are Throwaways' 24:42 - Tom DeLonge's UFO Research Group Signs Contract With U.S. Army to Develop Far-Future Tech 26:44 - NASA plans to send water-hunting robot to moon surface in 2022 29:06 - Colorado’s dropping its T-Mobile-Sprint lawsuit after Dish agrees to build HQ in the state 31:06 - Watch a Real-Life Invisibility Cloak Designed for Military Use 33:34 - Study casts doubt on value of WHO’s “gaming disorder” diagnoses 35:30 - EU data watchdog raises concerns over Microsoft contracts 37:32 - Traffic lights worldwide set to change after Swedish engineer saw red over getting a ticket 39:58 - TikTok raises national security concerns with Congress, as Schumer, Cotton ask for federal inquiry 41:10 - Apple CEO Tim Cook joins influential Beijing university board as company’s China woes continue 43:25 - Gamers for Freedom will pressure Blizzard and other publishers about Hong Kong 44:23 - BlizzCon protesters announce online day of action October 29, calling on Game Developers & BlizzCon Sponsors to voice their support for political and human rights speech in advance of major rally 46:09 - Facebook is launching a news section — and will pay some publishers millions 47:29 - Facebook to face $35 billion class-action lawsuit over misuse of facial recognition data 48:28 - Zuckerberg faces heat in Congress: “It’s almost like you think this is a joke” 50:23 - Facebook Pledges $1 Billion to Ease Housing Crisis Inflamed by Big Tech 51:28 - Dorsey Criticizes Zuckerberg Over Free-Speech Argument 53:13 - Just 6% of US adults on Twitter account for 73% of political tweets… and they disapprove of Trump 54:25 - Twitter Stock Plunges After Earnings Are Worse Than Expected 55:39 - Maybe It’s Not YouTube’s Algorithm That Radicalizes People 58:00 - Instagram bans 'cosmetic surgery' filters 1:05:38 - Google Accused of Creating Spy Tool to Monitor Employees 1:07:24 - Apple Pay Overtakes Starbucks as Most Popular Mobile Payment Platform in the US 1:09:29 - Intel Tremont CPU Microarchitecture: Power Efficient, High-Performance x86 1:10:37 - Verizon's 5G network can only cover 'certain seating areas' in a basketball stadium 1:13:09 - Comcast’s ‘free’ streaming box actually requires an additional $13 / month fee 1:14:34 - Google: Stadia exclusives to have features “not possible” on home hardware 1:16:35 - Nvidia’s new leaked Shield TV boxes accidentally go on sale early at Best Buy 1:17:59 - WeWork Founder Adam Neumann Is Still a Billionaire After Bailout 1:19:10 - Bezos lost $7.3 billion on paper today Amazon AMZN earnings q3 2019 1:20:31 - Amazon is shipping expired baby formula and other out-of-date foods 1:23:18 - BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror 1:24:45 - AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard 1:25:47 - Tesla (TSLA) earnings Q3 2019 1:27:39 - Automatic emergency braking in cars will be standard by 2022, but false activations still a concern 1:29:14 - Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor 1:31:29 - Disney+ does not work on Linux devices 1:33:48 - Researchers Find Racial Bias in Hospital Algorithm 1:35:26 - HireVue's AI face-scanning algorithm increasingly decides whether you deserve the job 1:37:29 - This robot wants to wear your face. You'll get $130,000 for sharing 1:40:23 - Gardening Robot Will Trim your Bush and Mow Your Lawn 1:42:13 - Google researchers taught an AI to recognize smells 1:44:37 - AI allows paralyzed person to ‘handwrite’ with his mind 1:46:30 - Japanese hotel chain sorry that hackers may have watched guests through bedside robots 1:49:16 - Open database leaked 179GB in customer, US government, and military records 1:50:50 - Equifax used 'admin' as username and password for sensitive data: lawsuit 1:52:20 - Avast says hackers breached internal network through compromised VPN profile 1:53:31 - 40 Major Music Festivals Have Pledged Not to Use Facial Recognition Technology 1:55:41 - You Got a Brain Scan at the Hospital. Someday a Computer May Use It to Identify You.